Color Palette Blues?
I have come a long way from the days of reading Molly Holzschalg’s Web by Design book back in 1998 and try to stick to web safe color palettes. I have become more sophisticated actually following my handy color wheel software and other books I have acquired over the years on graphic design that help me along the way. The whole process of choosing a good color palette for a design is in my opinion the most interesting part of the graphic user interface design process. Not to mention that deciding the focal point of a web page can be a little challenging when an image competes with the actual message of the web page. It has to scream harmony and that’s what I love about putting it all together.
The process is a little sexier with Colr.org where you can get a head start in the creative department getting a quick color palette based on your own image. When I learned that it was inspired by del.icio.us principle of tags and rss feeds, I just knew I had to use it.
As a multimedia designer and web applications developer for higher education, Terry writes about visual design trends, programming and tools for education and instructional design.
